http://www.metafilter.com/tags/math+fractals Posts tagged with 'math' and 'fractals' at MetaFilter. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:56:25 -0800 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:56:25 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/76467/Would%2Dyou%2Dlike%2Dto%2Dbuy%2Dan%2Dfuzzy%2Dmultiinstanton%2Dknot <a href="http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/the_case_of_m_s_el_naschie.html">"...the best place to hide bulls**t is in a refereed journal that’s not open-access!"</a> The math-physics blog <a href="http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/">n-category cafe</a> digs into <a href="http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/the_case_of_m_s_el_naschie.html">the curious case of M.S. El Naschie.</a> El Naschie is editor-in-chief of the journal <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/967/description#description">Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals</a>, published by the well-respected scientific publisher Elsevier and sold to academic libraries for US$4,520 a year. The problem? El Naschie has published 322 of his own papers in the journal -- papers that John Baez (of <a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/TWF.html">"This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics"</a> and <a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html">"The Crackpot Index"</a>) describes as "vague, dreamlike imagery," "undisciplined numerology larded with impressive buzzwords," and "total baloney." Is El Naschie a reverse <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair">Sokal</a>? Or <a href="http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/">a Markov process for producing random publishable papers?</a> One thing's for sure -- <a href="http://www.57357.com/Activities/Events/tabid/229/mid/661/newsid661/407/Default.aspx">he knows how to cure cancer.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76467 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:56:25 -0800 academia baez chaos elsevier fractals journal math physics publishing science sokal escabeche http://www.metafilter.com/67078/Cut%2DThe%2DKnot <a href="http://www.cut-the-knot.org/content.shtml">Interactive mathematics miscellany and puzzles</a>, including <a href="http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/index.shtml">75 proofs</a> of the Pythagorean Theorem, an <a href="http://www.cut-the-knot.org/ctk/index.shtml">interactive column</a> using Java applets, and <a href="http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/tricky.shtml">eye-opening demonstrations</a>. (Actually, <a href="http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml">much more</a>.) tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.67078 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:52:10 -0800 algebra fractals geometry illusions interactive java math mathematics probability puzzles parudox http://www.metafilter.com/57027/Gallery <a href="http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/gallery/cx/nowhere.gif">Riemann's Curve</a> , <a href="http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/gallery/cx/foils.gif">Airfoils</a>, <a href="http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/gallery/movies/cxfns.mov.gif">Complex Roots</a>, <a href="http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/gallery/">More</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.57027 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:38:48 -0800 curves fractals Harvard math mathematics Kwantsar http://www.metafilter.com/56677/Mandelbrot%2Don%2DFractals%2Das%2DA%2DTheory%2Dof%2DRoughness A talk with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno&#0238;t_Mandelbrot">Beno&#0238;t Mandelbrot</a>, entitled <a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/52">Fractals in Science, Engineering and Finance (Roughness and Beauty)</a> [video, 80mins, realplayer] about fractals as <a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/mandelbrot04/mandelbrot04_index.html">A Theory of Roughness</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56677 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:32:37 -0800 art finance fractal fractals mandelbrot math nature roughness science talk video MetaMonkey